1766 
* VERBENA multifida ; var. contracta. 
Dwarf Purple Vervain, 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. VERBENACER, Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of 
Botany, p. 238.) 
VER BENA.— Supra, vol. 4. fol. 294. 
V. multifida ; diffusa pilosa, foliis 3-5-partitis laciniatis, corymbis subcapitatis 
pedunculatis, calycibus hispide pilosis, corolla laciniis patentibus emarginatis, 
V. multifida. Flora Peruv. vol. |. p. 21. tab. 33. f. c. Syst. p. 338. (1798.) 
V. erinoides. Willd. enum. p. 634. no. 12. (1809 1) —Hooker Bot. Misc. 1. 
168. 
Erinus laciniatus. ' Linn. Sp. Pl. 879. 
* Lychnidea Verbene tenuifolie folio, vulgó Sandia Laguen. Peuill. Per. v. 
3. & 25," 
One of the commonest of all plants on the alps of Chile 
and Mendoza, growing according to Dr. Gillies to the 
elevation of 8000 feet above the level of the sea ; and vary- 
ing extremely in the colour of the flowers, in stature, and 
in the degree in which the leaves are cut. In some indi- 
viduals the flowers are said to be scarlet, in others blue, in 
the case before us purplish, and we can scarcely doubt that 
the V. sulphurea of fol. 1748 is in reality another form. 
It is a hardy perennial; and one of its more robust 
varieties is now a common ornament of the flower garden, 
over which it runs during the summer, forming patches 
several feet in diameter. 
What we now figure is a dwarfer and more short-jointed 
kind, our drawing of which was made in the Garden of 
* See folio 1184. 
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